I had a neighbor who lived just down the road from me.This man was sick.He had wrapped sai seen (white string) around his house.He didn’t get better.So some friends sought out a medium to find out what was wrong with him.
After they explained to the medium their friend’s dilemma, he decided to go and visit the man via a spirit entering his body.The medium never left his house but through a spirit’s power he was able to travel and see the sick man.Once he got there he said, “I can’t visit your sick friend.The sai seen is preventing me from entering the house.”
My family just moved to a new location about 60 miles from our old place in Northern Thailand.We are now in a Lue village that has a similar dialect to the one we were studying before.The new village has about two hundred homes and is located near a major river.We do live in a flood plain and the neighbors keep pointing out five foot high flood lines from a deluge that came through four years ago.Yikes!
The purpose of this blog is to give glimpses into my studies, trials and triumphs as I study the culture of the Lue people. The topics could range from events I participated in to discourse analysis.
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